Author: Julian ibiza
Date: 2023-06-27 10:34
Where I live in Spain , the competitive element between the children at the music schools doesn't seem to be a factor . Rather the more advanced level children have an almost custodial, protective and supportive attitude towards the younger or less proficient ones .
My 11 year old son is learning cello and his two ' rivals' are a couple of women in their 40s . In the music school concerts ,where the students perform solo,he regularly blows them both away, and afterwards they tend to come up to him to commend him and sort of paw at him like he was a saint that could pass them some musical don. I suspect that much of the ' don' they lack would have been theirs had they had some degree of musical education as children( just guessing here ..... they might just be tone deaf ).
Learning music can be a grind for children but they learn relatively quickly and even if they end up dropping it , what they've learnt will give them a very significant advantage if they later re-take up playing again as adults .
This has very clearly been the case for my wife .
Julian Griffiths
Tel. 34 696 798 853
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